Monte Cardo, Mountain summit in Haute-Corse, France

Monte Cardo is a mountain summit in Haute-Corse that rises to approximately 2,450 meters and features a jagged ridge visible from the Cortenais region of Corsica. The peak stands as a distinct landmark when viewed from lower elevations throughout the area.

On 27 March 1948 a Bristol aircraft of Indian National Airlines, flying from New Delhi to London, crashed on Monte Cardu early in the morning, killing all 19 people aboard. Five years earlier, in 1943, a Royal Air Force Vickers Wellington bound to bomb Italy came down on the eastern flank, killing everyone on board.

The rural chapel of Saint-Élisée stands at 1,555 m on the ridge north of the Misognu stream valley. Every year on 29 August a pilgrimage is held there, the highest in Corsica. The chapel shelters wooden statues of Saint Élisée and Saint Sabine.

The marked loop trail starts at the last houses at the top of Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco, at 802 m, climbing 1,650 m in total. It follows the D 15 as a track to Albertina at 965 m, then continues to the Saint-Élisée chapel at 1,555 m; from there the summit ridge is reached off-trail. A variant at Casetta Capucinu (896 m) drops to Campovecchio, a hamlet of Venaco.

On the eastern slope stands the Razzo-Bianco, a cone of grey marble at about 900 m altitude, once quarried. Many houses in Venaco and neighbouring communes still show this blue-tinged, sometimes violet-streaked crystalline limestone. Geologist D. Hollande noted that here sediments of the second nappe rest directly on protogine, a contact clearest at this rock.